An algorithm IS indeed a mathematical formula, a precise description of a solution for a problem. The fact, that it can be executed on a universal logic machine called a computer doesn't change the fact, that it's just an idea.
There are many algorithms taught to kids in school. Algorithms for adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimal numbers, for example. Or finding greatest common divisor of two numbers. Now think what could happen, if these could be patented. Scary? It is.
You're funny. For example, look at GCC. There isn't any othre compiler with such a range of target architectures. Or HURD - it's pure creativity. You listened too much to SCO shit-talk.
Oh, but you have to pay to get X.509 certificate from some trustworthy CA. Self-signed certificates say just nothing about your identity.
The solution: CAcert - it's a CA, which is using web of trust to verify identity of users, and it's free.
Not true. Ever heard about sparse files? The file can be 1 GB in size, but use just a few MB of disk space - unused blocks are filled with zeroes and not allocated on HD. That way, you don't need to do any post-processing for completed downloads. And you have the ability to preview incomplete files too. Of course, your filesystem must support sparse files to do this - ext2 and xfs, and probably many other linux filesystems, NTFS 5 can do it too.
It's just a workaround for a problem of current operating systems, which have one swapping policy for entire system. If an application could itself decide, which pages should be swapped, and which should remain, this wouldn't be needed. And the OS technology, which enables per-process swapping policies, is of course the microkernel. For working for multiple-GB image data the problem could be also small address-space of 32-bit processors. To solve this, we should just go 64-bit.
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Not true. He's saying, that adding swap to system with some RAM can improve performance. So, 512 MB RAM + swap can be faster than 512 MB RAM without swap. But 1 GB will always be better than 512 MB RAM, regardless of having swap or not.
Well, after some googling I found KPP ("Communist Party of Poland"), but I never heard about them before - they never were in the parliament, their election campaign must have been quiet, if they had any. Even Samoobrona ("Self-defense"), a "farmer's party", is in parliament now, and their leader, Andrzej Lepper, is widely known (mainly for his stupidity). But communists? In post-communist Poland communists never were a strong force.
For Polish government, communism is the root of all evil. I didn't heard of any Polish communist party, so "an extremely-communist party from Poland" surely will not join the Europarl. The idea of "banning Microsoft" also will not come from Poland - our government is a bunch of stupid Microsoft-lovers, that don't see (or don't know of?) any alternative and wastes A LOT of public money for Microsoft products (and Poland isn't a rich country).
Anyway, Polish politicians surely ARE bunch of assholes, that care more for their own wallets, than for their country. EU, beware!
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Actual facts with minimal bias? Like that "unbiased" multimedia content about Poland? My country is not THAT under-developed.
An algorithm IS indeed a mathematical formula, a precise description of a solution for a problem. The fact, that it can be executed on a universal logic machine called a computer doesn't change the fact, that it's just an idea.
There are many algorithms taught to kids in school. Algorithms for adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimal numbers, for example. Or finding greatest common divisor of two numbers. Now think what could happen, if these could be patented. Scary? It is.
Because you don't have a 100-meter dish receiving the signal, like the Green Bank Telescope.
It's not, they said it. "it seems MS has patented BASIC's IsNot operator."
You're funny. For example, look at GCC. There isn't any othre compiler with such a range of target architectures. Or HURD - it's pure creativity. You listened too much to SCO shit-talk.
I've read the page. Sounds pretty similar to what CAcert does...
Oh, but you have to pay to get X.509 certificate from some trustworthy CA. Self-signed certificates say just nothing about your identity. The solution: CAcert - it's a CA, which is using web of trust to verify identity of users, and it's free.
Hey, but it IS ugly and obfuscated. The )@\:&/'s make me think about Befunge, and `l`x`k's about Unlambda. It's cryptic, hides structure and meaning.
Thanks. Looks like BitTorrent is the ultimate anti-slashdotting cure ;)
They didn't build a full C/C++ compiler, they modified GCC to emit LLVM assembly.
Use Google. There are uses of "Athlong", "Athalon" and "Athalong".
Not true. Ever heard about sparse files? The file can be 1 GB in size, but use just a few MB of disk space - unused blocks are filled with zeroes and not allocated on HD. That way, you don't need to do any post-processing for completed downloads. And you have the ability to preview incomplete files too. Of course, your filesystem must support sparse files to do this - ext2 and xfs, and probably many other linux filesystems, NTFS 5 can do it too.
Hopper (Phoenix is just a prototype) will be unmanned. More on Wikipedia.
It's just a workaround for a problem of current operating systems, which have one swapping policy for entire system. If an application could itself decide, which pages should be swapped, and which should remain, this wouldn't be needed. And the OS technology, which enables per-process swapping policies, is of course the microkernel. For working for multiple-GB image data the problem could be also small address-space of 32-bit processors. To solve this, we should just go 64-bit.
Not true. He's saying, that adding swap to system with some RAM can improve performance. So, 512 MB RAM + swap can be faster than 512 MB RAM without swap. But 1 GB will always be better than 512 MB RAM, regardless of having swap or not.
Well, after some googling I found KPP ("Communist Party of Poland"), but I never heard about them before - they never were in the parliament, their election campaign must have been quiet, if they had any. Even Samoobrona ("Self-defense"), a "farmer's party", is in parliament now, and their leader, Andrzej Lepper, is widely known (mainly for his stupidity). But communists? In post-communist Poland communists never were a strong force.
For Polish government, communism is the root of all evil. I didn't heard of any Polish communist party, so "an extremely-communist party from Poland" surely will not join the Europarl. The idea of "banning Microsoft" also will not come from Poland - our government is a bunch of stupid Microsoft-lovers, that don't see (or don't know of?) any alternative and wastes A LOT of public money for Microsoft products (and Poland isn't a rich country).
Anyway, Polish politicians surely ARE bunch of assholes, that care more for their own wallets, than for their country. EU, beware!
You meant Cowboy Neal
Better re-read your posting
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Guido van Rossum, Python inventor? And of course Bjarne Stroustrup.